THE SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION REVEALS THE FIRST AND SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST
This study explains the picture chart included. God wants you to know there is more to the first chapter of Genesis than the account of His physical creation. He wants you to learn that there are going to be seven 1,000 years of human history before the New Heaven and Earth are formed. Also, He wants you to discover that the timing for the first and second coming of Jesus are also hidden prophetically in the days of creation.
The Prophetic Meaning of Seven Days
Let’s start with the seven physical days of creation and show how God intended all of them to represent seven thousand years of human history. The Apostle Peter received a revelation at some point in his life about the days of creation. He recorded it and he does not want us to be ignorant about it. As written in 2 Peter 3:8: “Do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
In Chapter 3 Peter is prophesying to Christians that scoffers will come in the future saying, “Where is the promise of Jesus’ return.” In doing this, Peter refers to the second day of creation by saying people are ignorant about the separation of the waters in day two of creation. He applies it to the flood in the second thousand-year period because with God, one day is like a thousand years (2 Pet 3:4-7). Peter goes on to say that although God promises not to destroy the earth by water again, He is going to destroy it in the future by fire.
Creation Patterns and Human History
Notice this about the chart. God divides the first six days into two patterns. This structure reveals the following:
- The first three days: In the first three days He works with light, water, and land with no living creatures.
- The second three days: In the second three days He works with light, water, and land, adding living creatures.
You will see how this represents the spiritual life God intended in the fullness of time through His Son Jesus from the fourth thousand-year period. Jesus’ first coming and second coming turn out to be on this timeline.
DAY ONE – GOD DIVIDES LIGHT FROM DARK
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day (Gen 1:3-5). In this context, God separates the lineage of Seth from Cain. As I begin to explain how God divided the light from the dark in the first thousandth year, let me first refer to what Peter said again: “Do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
This first applies to the life of Adam. The first thing God said to Adam in the garden before Eve disobeyed by listening to the manifestation of Satan through a snake in the tree was, “In the day you eat of it, you shall surely die.” We see that neither of them died physically that day as God said. As we follow the story of Adam, we learn he lived 930 years before he died physically.
Determining the Season of Jesus’ Second Return
We are about at the end of the sixth thousand-year period on the history line. Let’s see how the first six millennia have proven themselves according to the prophetic statement Peter made. It is scriptural that no man knows the day or the hour of his second coming. But it is important to note that I Thessalonians 5:4-5 tells us we are not to be in darkness so that the Day of the Lord should overtake us like a thief, for we are sons of light. We might not know the day, but we will discern the season. Once you discover the time of Jesus second return and how close it is to being fulfilled, you should be emboldened to testify with confidence to those who are interested.
This truth of 7,000 years for seven days is easy to remember if you just use the scriptures in red from the chart. By the time you are done with this study you will be prepared to share when Jesus is coming back even though you don’t have this chart or the Bible with you.